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💬 The Wrap

This month saw previews of both Windows and Android include support for Unicode 9.0 emoji candidates, in the fastest turnaround I have seen. By comparison, Unicode 7.0 was approved in mid-2014 and didn't see any vendor support for over a year!

Unicode 9.0 is currently in beta, and planned for release in June. Public operating system versions which support the latest emoji characters aren't likely to be released until the second half of 2016.

A preview of Android N came out one week after Microsoft's Windows 10 preview and includes "gendered" emojis replacing the gender-neutral humans, skin tone modifier support, and also supports the latest Unicode 9 candidates.